The Difference between Environmental Ethics and Ecological Ethics from the View of the Change of Nature Concept

In the modern ethical discourse,nature and environment have been generally used as the same concept,but in fact there is a fundamental transition between them: the transform from nature to environment reflects the change of people's attitude to the nature and indicates the worse relationship between man and nature.In this view,Environmental ethics is simply the extension of modern social ethics,but it does not change the ethical order of protecting nature: We value the ecological balance as an important tool and make the original Social basic ethics popular among people;by this way we think we have achieved the goals of environmental ethics.Furthermore ecological ethics mainly concerns with the Moral relationship between man and nature,which will eventually have profound effects on the social life and the fundamental interests of peoples.